MERAWI IN 1897 We started in a boat from the camp one Saturday afternoon towards the end of September, intending to sail up the river to the water-wheel nearest the village of Gebel Barkal, but so soon as we got well out into the stream the wind dropped, and the ANKARIH, OR NATIVE BF.DSTP:AD.

current carried us down the river. When at length we succeeded in reaching the bank on the other side, we found ourselves more than a mile from the point for which we had set out. The crew got out and began to tow the boat, but progress was so slow that the night fell before we were a quarter of the way to the mountain, and in the darkness two of the towers slipped into the river. After this they argued the case with the Egyptian orderly whom Colonel Wingate had sent with me, but as they talked the Berberi language I could not follow the drift of their remarks ; when the orderly had turned them into Arabic it appeared that the crew wanted to return to the camp and make a fresh start on the following day. This, of course, was absurd ; so the towing began again, and all went well until we came to a reach of the WOODEN PILIOWS USED IN 'J HE SOUTHERN SUDAN.

river where water-wheels are numerous. The men climbed up the staging of several of them and passed the tow-rope over, but at one place, where the current ran very strongly, the rope caught in a forked branch of a tree which had fallen into the river near the bank, and the men, who were at that moment climbing over a water-wheel, were brought to a standstill. Suddenl} the branch 205